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Re:Tabletop Whale is an original science illustration blog on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @11:10PM (#50268893)
Nice. Reminded me of the Mississippi meander maps.

www.radicalcartography.net/index.html?fisk

Re:Why Nothing Looks Cool Anymore [video] on Sunday September 20, 2026 @12:38PM (#49777437)
Thanks for chiming in here.

This video went way beyond the boundaries of its premise to ask the same kind of questions you did about “where our humanity is”. I often say that when (if) historians look back from 10,000 years in the future there will be general agreement that the period from the late 1950s through the early 2000s will turn out to have been the best patch of human existence — the time when the throttle of possibilities was suddenly wide open and politico-corporate control systems hadn’t yet figured out how to clamp down again. (See also: Iain M. Banks, The State of the Art.)

Re:Rethinking Legal Education in the AI Era on Sunday July 26, 2026 @05:13AM (#49056174)
The posted article is about law school, but the comments are focusing on practice. These overlap but are not the same.

“Lawyer” is one of many possible career paths. Law graduates are uniquely qualified as premium law-aware generalists. In my opinion, there is no better education to prepare for future business uncertainty.

Noting with mirth the name of the president of the teachers’ union, Ms Person, quoted as being anti- this sort of thing.
Re:Silicon Valley has a science fiction problem on Saturday July 25, 2026 @05:10PM (#49051599)
I’m cross with Musk for using Culture ship names while DOGEing. Take your stinking paws off my utopia, you damned dirty trillionaire!
Re:The Revenge of the Philosophy Majors on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @07:13PM (#48825292)
Re:The Revenge of the Philosophy Majors on Sunday July 05, 2026 @11:27AM (#48794996)
Archive.today exists. Takes 3 seconds.

https://archive.ph/7A8cW

Re:The Xteink X4 E-Ink Reader on Thursday June 25, 2026 @06:47AM (#48671609)
OMG, e-ink = FRONTlight, not backlight. /pedantry

They have an S4 coming out with frontlight and Android. Would be great if it supports scrolling like a Boox Palma but at 1/6 the price.

It seems like such an obvious conclusion. The article says the power demand for air conditioning, even at high levels of adoption, would be a “rounding error” within overall consumption. Why suffer?
Archive link is below
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